Now you can buy it retail, with your credit card. I've yet to actually hit one of these, but it looks like a pretty cool way to get the message out about stuff. Only 3 ads per page, no pictures, short copy...

You know? It seems a lot like PBS underwriting. Well, like it *used* to be.

They seem, so far, to be being scrupulous about the Chinese wall between advertising and 'editorial', too... though the Yahoo/medical story from a week or so ago still gives me pause.posted by baylink at 4:12 PM on October 4, 2000

"After yesterday's story about google favoring Yahoo links, I got word from Sergey Brin from google. He says that the reason that the site tested showed so poorly is that a robots.txt file prevented Google's crawler from fully indexing the site. The robots.txt file has since disappeared, and the next index should show a change in the rankings."posted by tomalak at 6:00 PM on October 4, 2000

This also illustrates the ever-weaking ad market — google has very similar ads (blue background, same text limits, but without filtering) between the dmoz listings and the search results for a $60 CPM. These spaces cost $10, $12 and $15.posted by sylloge at 6:53 PM on October 4, 2000

It might even reflect easy ways to block banner ads. Warning: self-blog ( i think its legal in comments). I've got a ad blocking hosts file up for those sick of seeing pages full of annoying animations.posted by skallas at 10:33 PM on October 4, 2000

Works great skallas, now, anyone know where can I get something similar for work (damn proxy......)?posted by Markb at 1:55 AM on October 5, 2000

i say big respect to google for choosing not to clutter their pages with image-based / streaming / flash / realplayer ads

the google ads are inobtrusive, download like a flash, and can be easily ignored if that's your inclination

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